Florida police officers have come under fire after a video released by an anonymous source showed them punching a Black teen girl as they restrained her. Authorities claim she was resisting arrest.

According to the Miami Herald, on Thursday at the Coral Square Mall in Coral Springs, a bystander videotaped the arrest and alleged assault as the 14-year-old girl was “face down, lying on her belly on the ground, and is punched twice in the side by an uniformed cop while being held down by another officer.”

Of course, the Coral Springs police deny that excessive force was used in this case and that the video doesn’t capture the entire story of what happened.

“As with all social media posts, it shows only the end of the story, not the incident in its entirety which led up to the arrest,” reads the statement posted on Friday.

“Officers were called to the mall by security about unruly teens, who had been harassing patrons and causing a disturbance. Upon meeting with security, an officer was stopped by a mother, who indicated her 5-year old child was shoved to the ground by one of the teens.”

They also claim the teen under arrest after hitting another teen at the mall.

Coral Springs police stress that mall security asked them to ban the teens from the mall, which they did, but had to return soon after when those same teens returned to the mall.

The police also stressed that they used this amount of force in order to unclench her fist, a claim that many folks on Twitter do not believe.

OUTRAGEOUS!

This is a Coral Springs police officer repeatedly punching a 14-YEAR-OLD BLACK GIRL.